You could write about the way the status of Madame Loisel only appears to change through the wearing of the necklace and about how her confidence is false or only fleeting, a bit like Cinderella's - it is all due to change very shortly.
She has four things in her favor at the Ball - two attributes are real and hers alone (her beauty,her lively bright personality) but two are false (a ball gown they couldn't afford and a necklace which doesn't belong to her, and which itself later turns out to be fake.)
Think about these things:
What is Madame Loisel's first physical reaction to the necklace?
What is she afraid of if she goes to the Ball 'unprepared?'
Explain in the detail the sentence where she is pretty and popular at the Ball. How is she feeling inside? How does the necklace contribute to that? Does it make her 'feel like a million dollars?' Is it because she has temporarily elevated her status to that of the other girls?
Finish by commenting on her level of confidence as she scuttles like a drab poor church mouse through the Champs Elysee.
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